The Comment Awards Are Very GLAAD To See You
Our major award, women’s basketball, dream jobs and your words!
Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” Isn’t The Gal Pal Anthem Homophobes Seem To Think It Is
She wants to taste your lips but only because they’ve been kissing the boy she’s into.
Fan Fiction Friday: 8 Carmilla Stories To Warm Your Misanthropic Heart
And a profile with series creator Ellen Simpson, who writes all kinds of fan fiction too!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Jill of Many Trades, Master of Some
You’ve got the skills to pay the bills or maybe not the bills, but you definitely have skills! Photo editing, twerking, parallel parking, making tiny burritos for tiny hamsters? Come over here and tell me about all the stuff you’re boss at!
Women’s March Madness: The Sweet 16 Kicks Off Tonight!
You can watch women’s basketball nonstop this weekend, if you want to. What a time to be alive!
Also.Also.Also: What’s More Exciting, A Spider Named Sparklemuffin or Ellen Page Eating Pancakes?
The latest episode of Kristin Russo’s First Person series is queering fashion, Arabelle Sicardi and her mom are watching TV, drawing race and class boundaries with sexual discourse, Gillian Anderson is avaibs, being fat black and invisible, your daily Stevie Nicks moment, instagram isn’t comfy with your blood because they are ignorant fucks, and young girl gets gifts from crows because she’s living her best life.
The Fosters Episodes 220-221 Recaps: Dystopian Robot Apocalypse
Jude and Connor come out, and Monty finally stops keeping her lips to herself.
Indiana Governor Signs Anti-Gay “Religious Freedom Act,” Pisses Everybody Off
Indiana’s decision to “protect” religions from having to deal with gay people has not gone over well with the NCAA, GenCon, a bunch of tech CEOs or the Indianapolis mayor — but the Governor insists this law is totally fine and awesome and not legalized discrimination at all!
Playlist: Let’s Go On A Picnic / Lay In The Grass
If you have the right weather for listening to this outside, please do that. But if not, put your sunglasses on inside and live the dream anyway.
Daily Fix: Frat Lobbies Are Why We Can’t Have Nice Things and Other News Stories
The death of trans teen activist Blake Brockington, good legislative news for same-sex parents in Maryland, Roy Moore says something regrettable, Ellen Pao takes sexism in venture capitalism to court, and more!
Sober in the City: Adventures in Sober Dating
“I could not wrap my head around having to jump back into the dating scene – sober no less. Where would I find suitable dating candidates? How do I “come out” as sober? It’s bad enough that the queer dating pool is incredibly small. Now, I had to contend with the fact that some people would be averse to dating a sober recovering addict.”
This Business Of Art Fix #1: That Awkward Moment You Realize That There Is No Businesswoman’s Lunch Special
The very first edition of a biweekly link round-up of stuff I’ve read and thought about relevant to the work we do here: online media, women in business, entrepreneurship, journalism, start-up culture, publishing, advertising, management, freelancing, literature, queer visibility, etc. LET’S TALK BUSINESS, LADIES.
This Binder is Magic: A Gushing Review of the GC2b
“Anyhow, I put this binder on, and after the initial struggle that always comes with putting on a thing that fits as tightly as binders should fit, I felt — nothing. The binder felt like nothing. THE BINDER FELT LIKE NOTHING, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
Daily Fix: Evan Rachel Wood Would And Other Stories We Missed
Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson keep being adorable, Orphan Black is almost back, Evan Rachel Wood’s got tomboy style advice, J.K. Rowling threw some magical shade on Twitter and more pop culture stories you need to know about!
Stef’s Team Pick: “Teenage Bedrooms On Screen” Will Be Your New Favorite Thing
Are you ready to painstakingly examine the psychological profile of every character Winona Ryder has ever played?
Fool’s Journey: Slow Holler’s Queer/Southern Artists Tell Their Stories Through Tarot
We tell stories to stay awake. We tell stories to communicate. It is how we come to know each other. It is a part of our culture. We may be black, brown, white, queer, undocumented. We come from swamps, foothills, and sandy pines. We have different histories and experiences, but we came from this place and we shape this place.
Glee Episodes 612-613 Recaps: Last Stop On The Midnight Train
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and now it’s over.
Last Call: Stories from New Orleans’ Disappearing Dyke Bar Scene
A new podcast dives deep into New Orleans’ dyke bars of the 1970s and ’80s. Here are a few of the funny, sweet and powerful stories from Last Call.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Nine, March 2015
This is an especially epic edition of The Insider, if I do say so myself. There were a lot of funny chats during the Advice-a-Thon and you had SO many questions for the A+ box and Yvonne went on a press trip to Philly and so many other neat things happened!
18 Questions We Have About the X-Files Reboot
“17. Oh god, is anyone on this show a medical doctor? ANYONE?”